With Cardano continuing to roll out upgrades for its network, many analysts predict that its token, ADA, will go to the moon in the coming year.
The Cardano network has long been considered “slow” in releasing developmental upgrades but recently increased the pace by hard forking in September to introduce the Vasil update. As a result, more projects have started to look into deploying on Cardano.
But how high can ADA go before 2024?
Here are some reasons ADA can go to the moon 20x before 2024.
Charles Hoskinson Predicts Institutions Incoming
Charles Hoskinson, the co-founder of Ethereum and Cardano, spoke at Mainnet 2022 earlier in the year and claimed that venture capital funds would come into the Cardano ecosystem organically. Continuing with the premise of “if you build it, they will come,” Hoskinson believes that VC firms will begin to flood into Cardano due to greed being one of the obligations to satisfy their investors.
Hoskinson believes that the Cardano ecosystem is purpose-built for institutional investors due to its mass adoption appeal. The Cardano network can be much more scalable to the mass market than competitors such as Ethereum and Solana and Hoskinson insists that the projects built on the network will attract institutional investment. As a result, developers will start to realize Cardano is one of the best chains to build on top of;
I've seen hundreds of tweets like this one. Lots of projects are excited to deploy now https://t.co/6SxxaotFcH
— Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) September 23, 2022
Vasil Upgrade Continues To Help Developers Build
The Cardano blockchain conducted a hard fork on September 26th to roll in the Vasil upgrade. The upgrade went live on September 22nd but was activated a few days later.
Designed to improve the ecosystem’s scalability and transaction throughput, the Vasil hard fork ushered Cardano into a new era where decentralized applications could thrive on its network.
With the previous Alonzo upgrade, decentralized applications were only introduced on the network a year ago, allowing developers to launch their projects and applications on the network. In addition, the new Vasil upgrade enhances the smart contract capabilities and upgrades the programming language, Plutus, available to developers.
Cardano Ranks Ahead of Polygon, Solana, and Polkadot for Active Developers
A recent Tweet by Coin98 Analytics confirmed that Cardano ranks second in active developer counts, putting it ahead of Polygon, Solana, and Polkadot.
Ranking of active developer counts:
1. Ethereum
2. Cardano
3. Polkadot
4. Cosmos
5. Solana
6. Near
7. Hedera
8. Elrond
9. Bitcoin
10. Polygon
11. Celo
12. Algorand
13. Avalanche
14. Waves
15. Optimism
16. Mina
17. Tron
18. Fantom pic.twitter.com/M4dDfFImaG— Coin98 Analytics (@Coin98Analytics) October 15, 2022
The data provided by Santiment shows that the GitHub repository for Cardano attained 600 forks, indicating a higher number of active developers contributing to the project.
Cardano Greatest Days Ahead & $200 million Incentivisation
Cardano supporters continue to claim the greatest days for Cardano are still ahead.
In the next bull run, the best DeFi trading platform will be on Cardano, and it won’t be close. So will the biggest book NFT platform backed by huge names in publishing. A fast growing mobile network. Biggest DID project. Been here two bulls and bears, never felt more confident
— ADA whale (@cardano_whale) October 14, 2022
In all fairness, they’re probably correct. But unfortunately, Cardano is still a long way from attaining its goal of becoming a layer-1 with a flourishing ecosystem. However, the latest series of hard forks (Vasil, Alonzo, and Mithril) are taking it one step closer to its goal, but still, only around 1000 projects are being built on the network itself.
To provide additional incentives to developers building on Cardano, the commercial and venture capital arm of Cardano, EMURGO, recently announced a $200 million fund to help developers to build on top of its network;
Cardano development lab @emurgo_io will invest over $200 million to support projects directly building atop of or integrated into @Cardano’s network alongside their own. https://t.co/3Np4sxpnaq
— CoinDesk (@CoinDesk) October 2, 2022
Adding further to the optimism, Dan Gambardello, founder of CryptoCapitalVenture, also stated to his 300,000 followers that the last year leading to the current price was the most challenging part for ADA holders. He continued to say the clouds will eventually clear, and Cardano will thrive in the next bull cycle;
$ADA holders, I think the last year leading to this current moment was the toughest part. Now we prepare for the last leg of the bear market. It will be volatile & crazy, but the clouds will eventually clear and #Cardano will thrive in the next bull cycle. Stay strong & plan.
— Dan Gambardello (@cryptorecruitr) October 13, 2022
Cardano Price Prediction: Can It 20x Before 2024?
So, can Cardano 20x before 2024?
Cardano has seen a rough few months of trading and recently slipped to a 21-month low this week;
The all-time high price for ADA was at $3.16, set in September 2021, and the price is currently down by over 88% from this high.
For ADA to 10x from here, the price would hit the previous all-time high price of around $3.16. From there, hitting $7 shouldn’t be too much of an issue once ADA starts to make fresh all-time highs in the bull run.
Diversification is Key
Even though ADA can hit the moon and hit 20x before 2024, it’s always important not to put your eggs into one basket and keep your portfolio diversified. That involves keeping a portfolio spread across the top 30, with some potential moonshots added.
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Overall, IMPT is one of the best potential moonshots for 2023 and is undoubtedly an excellent diversification option.
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